THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

Jack Diorrn e, prblislru

M. ADAMS Clrqlatioo Muga

The Strike Situation

Portland, Sept. 1l.-The jurisdictional controversy between the A.F.ofL. and the C.I.O. for control of the sa'ivmill workers continues, and A.F.ofL. leaders say their national boycott of C.I.O. lutnlter will continue until insurgent sawmill workers return to the A.F.ofL. fold.

- Only trvo of Portlaud's major sawmills lvere operating yesterday, the others having been forced to shut down br,ving to being unable to obtain logs. The river is-jammed with iogs but-mills can't get them because A.F.ofL. picket boats aie picketing the log rafts. All of the Portland mills rvith exception of two reopened Septembet 7 altet the Labor Day week-end shutdown, but as already stated a- number of ihese have since been forced down for lack of logs-

Consolidated Logging Co., Glenwood, Ore., employing 6@ loggers, shut down on September 9, because of log tietuns in the Willarnette River.

Violence in the form of beatttps, overturning of fuel trucks. breaking of equipment and windorvs caused May9l Joseph Carson- to serve notice that city authorities lvill move in to preserve order if any more of this occtlrs.

Sarvmills it Grays Harbor, Tacoma and Seattle are still working.

San Francisco, Sept. 11.-No lumber has been unloaded on the docks here since the Teamsters' Union blockade asainst goods handled by the C.I.O. longsho-remen and their affrliate members of the \Varehousemen's lJnion went into effect at rnidnight, August 31.

The issue in the dispute between the Teamsters' IJnion and the I.L.A. is that jurisdiction over the inland warehousemen, organized by the longshoremen as a C.I.O. union, rvas awarded last April to the teamsters by the American Federation of Labor. The teamsters say the blockade rvill continue until the I.L.A' recognizes teamsters' jttrisdiction over inland warehouses.

The blockade was extended to the East Bay at midniqht. September 7, when teamsters stopped work on the Oakland, Alameda and Richmond waterfronts.

The Teamsters' IJnion, according to a statement issued in San Francisco by Dave Beck, international vice-president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, on September 10. will spread the blockade to other Pacific Coast ports if the I.I-.A. does not cease its efforts to organize- teamsters in Los Angeles, Sacramento, Stockton and San Francisco.

At a meeting of the Pacific Coast Highu'ay Confercnce. interstate teamsters' organization, held in San Francisco. September 10, two strategy committees were named-one toiage the teamsters'fight in the Bay area. and the other to aci at a moment's notice in any other Coast port. At this meeting leaders of the Pacific Coast's 80,000 teamsters lined up solidly behind San Francisco Bay region locals in their fight against the C.I.O. longshoremen.

The San Francisco Labor Council, acting on orders frorn President William Green, of the American Federation of Labor, expelled the longshoremen's and warehousemen's unions, affiliated with the C.I.O.

It is reported that warehousemen both in San Francisco and Oakland are signing up with the newly chartered rvarehousemen's union of the A.F.ofL.

So far there has been no actual stoppage of work in Los Angeles, and no lumber movement interfered with in any r.r'ay caused by the C.I.O.-A.F.ofl. controversy.

Lumber cargo arrivals at Los Angeles harhor for the rveek ended September 11 dropped to 12,538,000 feet as against 17,871,W Ieet the previous week.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its market report of September 11 states :

"Production, orders and shipments reported to the Association by 176 mills for the week ending September 4, all show that the market slttmp which started in micl-summer is continuing. In recent weeks reported production has totaled from 20,000,000 to 25,000,000 feet less rveekly than in June.

"The volume of orders taken by the industry has beert decreasir-rg steadily during the past few weeks.

"Oriental buying and shipments have been stc,pped bv tl-re war in China. One of the principal California markets, the San Francisco Bay District, is closed to rvater shipments of lumber by the dispute between the Teamsters and the Longshoremen. Lumbermen expect the other importar.rt lumber port, San Pedro, to be closecl soon by the same conflict. These closures will have an immediate effect on production and shipments in Coos Bay, Columbia River, Grays llarbor, Willapa Harbor and Puget Sound rvhere California business is an imortant part of the production of the tidewater mills,

"Two large mills in Portland were closed last week rvhen log supplies could not be obtained due to boycott. Three more were forced down this week.

"Due, lumbermen report, to the boycott by the American Federation of Labor, but one boat has been loaded with lumber in Portland during the past ten days. A number of steamers scheduled to make Portland loadings have failed to arrive and local lumbermen are of the opinion that the port is being avoided to prevent possible tie-up o{ boats.

"At other points along the Colurnbia River, in Grays Harbor, Willapa Harbor and Puget Sound similar boycotts are reported as being applied or anticipated. Should this boycott of loadings spread, a considerable portion of the industry, in the judgment of lumbermen, may be forced to suspend production."